New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-06-11
DEADLY GERMS IN MILK AND NETT

TUDERCULAR DISEASES EASILY COMMUNICATED
FROM ANIMALS To MEN-RAvAGEs OF THESE
DISORDERS
In regard to the epidemic OF pieuro pneumonia in
Wstcheser County lately several physicians of the
Health Department have SAID that the disease was far
less dangerous to a community than tuberculosis, a
maady which attic many animals and fowls and Is
readily transmitted to man. There has been a notice
adj. Increase in the number OF deaths from tubercular
comp aints particularly from consumption In this city
Ia recent years. In 1877 OF the 262o3 deaths IN the
city, 4,O44 were caused by consumption alone ana
there about 900 deaths from other tutercuiar
diseases The highest death rate known in this city
the last epidemic Iof cholera was In 1881 when
3S.624 persons died. Consumption killed OBJ that
year. and the total number OF deaths from tuber 'uar
compiaints was 1924 In the folio wing year the
deaths from tubercular diseases numbered 6.S|o.
Last year 1000 persons died In NewYork from these
com plants and ption alone destroyed o,f|I.
The deaths from all prevailing contagious diseases
In the city insignificant in number compared with
the loss of lite from tubercuar disorders
How much the mortality among children Is increased
by such complaints is shown by the deaths from
tubercular meningitis tnbes terca diseases
which children sometimes inherit rom consumpuve
parents but often acquire with their food heath De
partment records show the following deaths OF emil
dren from these diseases in four years. la 1879,
1912; in 1880, ,293 in 1881, LODI and In 1857,
1885. The deaths OF city children from such dis
orders last year numbered about Z,OCO. terinah
surgeon kept record OF autopsies on the pouleS Oh
children who died in German hospital a few years
ago, and he found that 33 per cent OF the children
died from tn bercular complaints DR.. Cyrus Edison,
of the Sanitary Bureau, believes that much
tuberculosis Is brought to the city ia milk lie SAID
to a TRIBUNE reporter:
"The danger people in this city, particularly to
the children from tuheroular germs cannot be 100
strongly expressed. Death or lingering sickness can
be carried to many families by the milk OF one COW
which IL affected by the disease IL is well known
that the disease is easily communicated In that way
and there ought to be efficient supervision oS tue
State TO prevent the sale of milk from diseased COWS
tuberculosis thrives best in hct-blooded animals
COW which has temperature OF 1Ol degrees is like
hotbed for the disease DR.. Blaine OF the Willard
State Asylum, who has devoted much time TO invesu-
cations the subject has said that per cent Oh tue
cows In this country have tuberculosis. VI S0,ooI
cattle slaug htered in Berlin in 1854 LUIS were sara
to DO affected by the disease The mesh OF diseased
ANIMALS and fowls will communicate the complaint 10
human beings also
| "Of course II must not be understood that every
person who tubercular germs IN iood VIII
| have the disease. Most adults and children with
strong constitutions able TO throw oil the germs
otherwise the human family would be involved In a
general epidemic OF the disease. But young and deli
cate children likely 10 be Affected because their
tss not thoroughly organized In such children
the disease may take the torn OF meningitis The child
loses its appetite and its desire TO play. An enlarge
ment the head is followed bv commissions aud there
is heord peculiar cry known ss the hydTocephalc
cry' II the disease takes the form OF tables meseI-
terca the glands and bowels are atectel and the
chile wastes away The lungs may be affected In time
OF ptrtouitis may set la and kill he child Cnder
certain conditions adults may contact uoercula CON
sumption by eating the flesh drinking the milk OF IA
diseased animal.
The disease has long been considered incurabe
when it has become fastened person. Ply sicians
have been watching with interest the exuerinenis at
the Charity Hospital, where anUmber OF consump-
tive pat have been improved 10y injections OF car
bonic acid gas Repeated injections have helped to
give sufferers much reliei, but IT Is still malter OF
doubt II cures will result The urgent necessity for
| action which will cnt off the communication OF the
disease from animals to the human family. mean hile
must DC apparent any intelligent person who takes
the trouble 10 cons der the subject"